At Lorin's urging, I just downloaded and tried Opera for Linux. It rocks!
Its footprint is approximately 1 MB of RAM, compared to netscapes 24.1 MB
and galeon's 22.3 MB. Also, with all three just sitting on google's home
page, netscape is eating 0.4% of my cpu, galeon is eating up 0.6% and
Opera 0.0% (I have an 800 MHz PIII, running Mandrake 8.1, kernel 2.4.8).
It's also significantly faster than either Netscape or Galeon. If it
turns out to be stable, it's my new browser, hands-down.
The one downside is the rectangle of permanent advertising in the upper
righthand corner, but wotthehell, I can block that out of my
consciousness. I bet there's some hack to get rid of that anyway
somewhere out there.
E
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Erik Curiel
Sometime Web Engineer/Almost Philosopher
"The affairs of human beings are not worthy of great seriousness,
and yet we must take them seriously."
---Plato, *The Laws*
